Articles provided by wck planning and articles by others discuss a wide variety of issues and opportunities facing small cities and towns. Ideas matter and history helps with practical and conceptual ideas and information about cities, city planning and city-building. The Articles gallery of CharacterTowns.org presents papers that discuss issues and opportunities for those thinking and doing city-building.
Infrastructure financing through private investment is the subject of “Chicago’s Novel Infrastructure Trust”[embeddoc url=”https://www.charactertowns.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/An-Article-Chicago-Infrastructure-Trust.pdf” width=”100%” download=”all” viewer=”google”] presents a creative […]
Project Management, A Learned Skill provides a flow chart for a typical project with steps along the way to guide
Who Benefits in a Tech Hub? is another product from Richard Florida who continues to provide useful thoughts for how
“Character Towns” of Central Florida: Report #3, A Survey of Main Streets reports the preliminary results of what has become the
Neighborhood Cafés, markets and delicatessens in established neighborhoods is a great community asset; but introducing new cafes into an established
A Broadband Plan for Small Cities and Towns by Mr. Levin presents his ideas on the essential requirement for all cities
The physical framework of a small city or town immediately establishes the character of the place. Ugly, ill-kept and poorly
Mr. Katz and Ms. Bradley have constructed a great and thoughtful book about innovation and the coming predominance of cities
The basic idea of leverage is to take one asset and use it to increase the value of another asset.
Small Cities and Towns are great hosts to businesses and “talent” of the New Innovation Economy. Small cities and towns with